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J. H. SHULL. GRIP POR SASH SUPPORTS.

'Patented Sept. '29, 1896.

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, GRIP POR SASH SUPPORTS.

, k10.568,708. Patented sept.29,186.

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I UNITED STATES d ATENT JOHN H. SHULL, OF VELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS,ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO F. W'. STEVENS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GRIP' FOR sAsH-sUPP'oR-rs.

SPECIFICATION formingppart of Letters Patent No. 568,708, datedSeptember 29, 1896. Application filed September 25, 1895' Serial No.563,620. (No model.)

To ail whom t may concern: the support-loop 10. By this means, when Beit known that l, JOHN H. SHULL, a citiweight is applied to the support,the tendency zen of the United States, and a resident of of its loop l0to be withdrawn from the Wire Vellesley, in the county of Norfolk andState loop 9 is opposed. The extreme ends 11 of 55 5 of Massachusetts,have invented certain new the wire may be passed through the loop 10 anduseful Improvements in Grips for Sashof the support in any suitable way,but it is Supports, of which the following is a specifipreferred to passthem through in opposite cation. directions and then bend them aroundthe My invention is an improvement in means outside of the loop, asshown. 6o 1o for connecting the supporting cord or tape in To detachablysecure the support to the windows to the sash and to the weight; and itsash, I employ a metallic elongated stiffeningconsists in novel featuresof construction, as piece constructed to grip the support andhereinafter described and claimed, whereby stiften it, and then insertthe end of the supeither the rope or tape may be conveniently port thusstiffened into a socket bored into 65 15 and effectually secureddetachably to these the sash at an angle either transversely to parts.the direction of pull or slightly upward, so

My invention will be fully understood upon that weight applied to thesupport has a tendreference to the accompanying drawings, in ency tohold the stiifened end in the socket whichrather than withdrawit, butpermits the same 7o zo Figure 1 is a vertical sectional View of the tobe withdrawn at any time when the side side of the window, representingthe attachof the sash is taken out of its bearings. ment of cord to theweight and to the sash. For rope the stiffening-piece consists of a Fig.2 is a similar view showing the applicametallic elongated sleeve 13,adapted to be tion of my invention to metallic ribbon or closed aroundthe end of the rope or cord and 75 25 tape. Figs. 3 andelare enlargeddetail views having inturned tongues or points to cause showing,respectively, the attachment of the a gripping of the same, as shown inFiga. rope to the Weight and to the sash. Figs. 5 The sash attachmentfor the tape consists and 6 are similar views illustrating the atof anelongated strip of metal 15, having its tachment of metallic tape tothese parts. Fig. ends turned in at 16 16b in such a manner that 8o 3o 7shows a modification of attaching-grip for when the end of the tape bentcorrespondingly attaching the tape to the sash. is passed under thetape, then passed around l represents the window-frame, in which theoutside of the stiffening-piece 15, the tape are supported the sashes 2and 3 by weights 4, will be prevented from slipping from the secured tothe sashes through the medium of same. In either form of thisstiifening-piece 85 A 3 5 supports 5, which pass over pulleys 6. The theend of the support to which it is applied supports 5 may be of eithercord or metallic may readily be inserted into or withdrawn tape, andthey are secured to the weights at from the socket formed in the sash. 7and to the sashes at 8. The means for se- In Fig. 7 is shown a modifiedform having curing the support to the Weight is the same a groove 16beneath the inturned end 16, as 9o 4o in eithercase. It consists of awire formed shown, into which the tape may be crimped at its middle witha loop 9, through which is to cause the gripping. passed a loop 10,formed on the support, while Having thus described my invention, the thetwo ends of the Wire are bent and passed following is what I claim asnew therein and through the eye 12 in the sash-weight, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent: 95 45 then bent up and passed through the loop10, l. Asash-support and Weight-fastenercomformed on the support. AU-shaped connecprising aV support formed with a loop, at the tion isthus formed, having inner arms 9a loweight end thereof, a weight-formedWith an cated beneath the wire loop 9, lateral poreye at the upper endthereof, and a wire tions 9C, extending through the eye of the formedwith a loop embracing the loop of the 10o 5o weight and outer arms 9",approximately parsupport, with inner arms located beneath allel with theinner arms and located beneath the wire loop, With lateral portionspassed through the eye of the Weight and with outer arlns approximatelyparallel with the inner arms and located beneath the support-hook havingtheir extreme ends passed through the loop of the support and embracingthe latter; substantially as described.

2. A sash support and fastener comprising a sash having a support-grooveand an elongated lateral socket bored in the body of the sash at theinner side of the support-groove, and a support having the sash endthereof bent laterally to the body portion thereof and provided with anelongated plain metallic stiilcning-piece compressed upon the sash endwhereby it is inserted detachably in the elongated lateral socket andprevented from being withdrawn therefrom by the vertical pull of thesupport; substantially as described.

3. A sash support and fastener' comprising a sash having a cord-grooveand an elongated lateral socket bored in the body of the sash at theinner side of the cord-groove and a cord having the sash end thereofbent laterally to the body portion thereof and provided with anelongated plain cylindrical metallic stiffening-sleeve compressed uponthe sash end having inturned tongues or points by which the sash end isgripped, and whereby the end is inserted detachably in the elongatedlateral socket, and prevented from being withdrawn therefrom bythevertical pull of the cord; substantially as described.

4. A sash support and fastener comprising a sash having a support-grooveand an elongated lateral socket bored slightly upwardly in the body ofthe sash at the inner side of the support-groove, and a support havingthe sash end thereof bent laterally to the body portion thereof andprovided with an elongated plain metallic stiifeningpiece conipressedupon the sash end whereby it is inserted detachably in the elongatedlateral socket and prevented from being withdrawn therefrom by thevertical pull of the support; substantially as described.

J OIIN II. SII'UL'L. \Vitnesses:

II. W. MASON, GEORGE W. JACKSON.

